Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 13:49:22 +0000 From: Olivier Duchateau <duchateau.olivier@gmail.com> To: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixing missing launch icons Message-ID: <CAHcdu2rEth-c7TwRFSMEGJj8wFK4gS0Q2CSVP9t3cFEGQ3yRgQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1352456262220-5759494.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1352456262220-5759494.post@n5.nabble.com>
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2012/11/9 Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com>: > Some ports fail to create the launch icon (menu item) in the desktop menu. To > correct this, one is to add in /usr/local/share/application a file by > <portname>.desktop like so: > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Name=<portname> > GenericName=<Detailed Name> > Comment=<whatever> > TryExec=<portname> > Exec=<portname> > Icon=<picture> > Type=Application > Categories=<c1>;<c2>;<c3>; > > My question is: The menu entries have categories - for example in gnome > there are Graphics, Office, Internet, etc. How can one specify the category > placement (under which category) this icon should go? > There's specification [1] for create (and understand) desktop menu. About icons, usually, we can find in /usr/local/share/icons and /usr/local/share/pixmaps directories. Note: some ports don't provide .desktop file, it's not necessarily "bug". [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ > Thanks and Regards > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/fixing-missing-launch-icons-tp5759494.html > Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- olivier
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